Modern performance reception of Ovidian scenes of sexual violence

西方世界有将针对女性的暴力美化的历史，奥维德很可能被认为是这种现象的创始人之一。扎克伯格（2018）证明了这一点，他揭露了厌恶女性的网络社区如何挪用经典文本，特别是奥维德的文本，以使网络暴力行为合法化。莫拉莱斯（2020）也认识到经典与性别暴力之间的联系，最近探索了经典如何被用来抗议强奸文化，并为边缘化群体提供新的叙事。在#MeToo时代，这种担忧比以往任何时候都更加明显。戏剧从业者也对此感兴趣，并且在批评暴力美学和偷窥观众的表演中有所增加。作为学科，古典文学和戏剧研究开始意识到这些紧迫的问题。但是，迄今为止，现有的学者还没有系统地探讨过这个问题，特别是没有与古典文本的表现有关。我的研究将缩小这一差距，因为我研究了现代表演对奥维德性暴力场景的接受，特别是来自《变形记》，但也包括奥维德更广泛的语料。我将考虑现代表演是如何表演强奸场景的以及奥维德文本是如何引起表演改编和抵抗性接受的，由此女性的声音被听到而传统的男性凝视被拒绝。这一领域的行业兴趣和学术差距使这一项目成为一个及时的项目。但进一步说，我的研究应该是所有人共同关心的。

The Western world has a history of aestheticizing violence against women, and Ovid could well be considered one of the founding fathers of this phenomenon. Zuckerberg (2018) proved this in exposing how an online community of misogynists have appropriated classical texts, particularly those of Ovid, to legitimise acts of online violence. Morales (2020) too has recognised the link between Classics and gendered violence and recently explored how Classics have been used to protest rape culture and offer new narratives for the marginalised. In the #MeToo era, this concern is more evident than ever before. Theatre practitioners are also interested in this, and there has been a rise in performances which critique aesthetics of violence and voyeuristic spectatorship. Classics and Theatre Studies, as disciplines, are beginning to recognise these urgent concerns. But the subject has not been explored systematically to date by existing scholarship, and especially not in relation to performance of Classical texts. My research will narrow this gap, as I examine the modern performance reception of Ovidian scenes of sexual violence, particularly from the Metamorphoses but also Ovid's wider corpus. I will consider how modern performances do and might stage rape scenes and how the Ovidian text invites both performative adaptation and a resistant reception, whereby the female voice is heard and the traditional male gaze is rejected. The industry interest and the scholarly gap in this area makes this a timely project. But furthermore, my research should be a common concern to all.